7 on 7 February

Recently I came across 7 on 7  project - kind of challenge where 7 photographers take 7 shots on every 7th day of each month and upload them to their blog. What I liked about this project is that you link your blog post to another participant and this way you can discover more photographes and collaborate.

These photos were taken actually in October or November (still lazy to check out the exif data) , but in one day though. It was little portrait session in a park with my classmate, which I was thinking about for pretty long, just waiting for the right moment. The thing you might do not know about me is that before I discovered still life photography and fell in love with it I was mostly shooting portraits  :) Now I'm trying to get back on track. I wanted to make one portrait session just black and white, what I've never done before, and I finally did it so...enjoy :) And don't forget to check out Rowan !

October Kyiv trip

Last autumn I went to Kyiv (the capital of Ukraine - Wikipedia), to meet up with a friend and to have fun a little bit. I went all by myself and felt so good, like almost independent person :)When I came home I thought I hadn't taken any good shot, but 2 days ago I bumped into the folder with these shots and found some that I'd like to share. So here they are.

Lviv streets (live). Part Two.

Finally I managed to edit and post the second part of our trip to Lviv. I kind of postponed it because of my senior year, i'm so excited to end it one day and have more time for my photography stuff.
I love this beautiful  historical city so much, i feel like only there I can feel happiness when I simply walk down the street and shoot(not literally) people.  It seems like I can picture life on streets only in Lviv,        at least   for  now any other city doesn't inspire me as much as Lviv does.
  I hope you'll enjoy some street and (of course) still life shots here.

Also check out the first part of our trip.

 

Olia & Andriy Wedding day

Hello everyone. It's been awhile. In previous post I told you that I was working hard on my wedding editing and finally IT'S DONE! I'm so excited to share this one with you, guys. Thank you so much for all the support and encouragement that I get on Flikr. It means a world to me. Actually that's my second wedding photoshot as the main wedding photographer, but my first one was not really successful and I'm not allowed to post it. Anyway this photoshot is one of my favourites and I hope you'll enjoy it! It was so much fun working with Olia and Andriy, the whole wedding ceremony was in ukrainian traditions-style, the bride made the main part of decorations herself! Here I'm gonna post some of my favourite photos from Their Day.

 
                                             A little surprise while driving to our shooting place =)

Lviv streets (live). Part One.

Two weeks ago two photography geeks went to Lviv - one of the most charismatic cities of Ukraine - to shoot life on streets. Take in a count that we both are more candid portrait photographers. But as I said we are geeks and we love photography in any way. Actually I was inspired to try street photography by Thomas Leuthard's books, which you can download for free here. Even before that I had few street shooters that I followed, but these books motivated me to try by myself. So here we're, photography obsessed strangers, wandering around ancient Lviv streets, taking picture, having fun. Btw, Lviv is just 4 hours from Lutsk, but the trip there is quite exhausting =) And as you know me, I couldn't resist to shot still life, which is everywhere!!! kidding. Maybe this post will seem weird because of mash-up of still life and portraits, color and b&w, beutiful and sad moments, but it's how I see life and Lviv in particular.

The warmth of the season

I'm not one of those kind of persone that you could call shopping geek,
but when I find something beautiful&comfortable I'm never against =)

Through autumn's advancing / We'll stay young go dancing

After a long while I'm finally here with few autumn shots for you. I wish I could blog here not so rarely, but I have a catastrophic lack of time. A senior year complicate my life, and with school, hometasks, exam's preparing, I hardly have time for editing wedding and lovestory photoshots , and my running 365 project, that is now in a horrible state (well, just not perfect I'd say=) ).But I hope with me waking up one hour earlier everyday I'll sort it somehow out and will please you with more posts, that are yet to come. So if you want to hear from me more frequent - Twitter and Flikr are my firends =)
And here is my lovely friend Kate, that was glad to pose for me while I was testing my new flash (so happy with buying it , was a great help for me while wedding shooting, but later about it).

Find me photosession

Find me photosession
Originally uploaded by mandarina yeroshko

Hey guys!Here's my new photosession from the fall season
called "Find me". I was relly very impressed with the way Nadia is in front of the camera. I can say that it's the best model i've ever worked with.
Natural,emotional, confident and at the same time she listen to my every word and do everything what i say. She's only person that trust me in front of the camera. That's why it so pleasantly to work with such people.
Honestly i'm satisfied with results.
So, you can see more photos on my Flikr photostream
and on YouTube (the slideshow with more photos and music)
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